The arrangement, June 10 -- Before Bill Gates walked into the closed-door room Wednesday, he made sure he understood exactly what waited for him inside. According to two people affiliated with the Gates Foundation, the Microsoft co-founder had spent weeks preparing for his deposition with Jake Greenberg - the man who, until last December, served as the House Oversight Committee's chief investigations counsel and personally ran the panel's inquiry into Jeffrey Epstein.

that one of the world's wealthiest men hired the person who built the investigation against him to tell him how that investigation works.

"Hearings are supposed to be serious attempts at fact-finding," Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette of the Project on Government Oversight told the ...